Also known as NMB Loc. 18373; 93-11-07
Where: Bocas del Toro, Panama (9.1° N, 82.0° W: paleocoordinates 9.1° N, 81.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cayo Agua Formation (Bocas del Toro Group), Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Cayo Agua Formation, which is equivalent in age to the upper part of the Shark Hole Point Fm and the lower part of the Escudo de Veraguas Fm, no contacts are known. AGE: Early Pliocene (Zanclean) in text; contains the planktonic foraminifer Globorotalia pseudomiocenica. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: At a height of 2 m in section 17 of Coates & Collins (1999).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, bioturbated, shelly/skeletal, gray, blue, silty sandstone
•LITHIFICATION: Not stated in text, but known to be poorly lithified by enterer; figured specimens appear to have been cleaned of sediment.
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Jung & Heitz in 1993; reposited in the NMB
Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), surface (in situ), sieve,
• COLLECTORS: P. Jung and A. Heitz, 8/2/93. REPOSITORY: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel (NMB),
Primary reference: A. G. Beu. 2010. Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus. Bulletins of American Paleontology (377-378)1-550 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 136461: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.11.2012, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Myctophum jacksoni Aguilera and de Aguilera 2001 lanternfish
Diaphus hataii Ohe and Araki 1973 lanternfish
Diaphus aequalis Schwarzhans and Aguilera 2013 lanternfish | |
Gastropoda | |
Tonna pennata Mörch 1853 tun shell
Malea ringens Swainson 1822 tun shell | |
Distorsio decussata Valenciennes 1832 snail | |
Marsupina bufo Bruguiére 1792 frog shell |